r/Filmmakers • u/belarus_guy • Dec 12 '20

General BTS of my first one-shot commercial

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u/Glaselar Dec 12 '20

Which is exactlywhy it's confusing that he's playing from the very start, since OP said the music comes in when the camera reaches the middle

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u/dasbush Dec 12 '20

Oh. That's because the start is the hardest part to get perfect without a really good queue. It's a lot easier to start playing earlier and keep time compared to starting at the exact right moment.

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u/Glaselar Dec 12 '20

You're still missing the point :)

  • OP says music starts mid-way through
  • Music is playing from the start of the BTS video
  • Musicians are clearly playing instruments from the start of the whole sequence

So does the music start at the start, or the middle?

(It turns out they meant there was a drop halfway through - language barrier.)

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u/dasbush Dec 12 '20

The music in the ad starts playing in the middle, but to coordinate timing the player actually starts earlier so that they are sync'd with the tempo of the song from the start. Since the music is layered on top of the video, if the tempo isn't perfect you will see errors in the playing. Hence the actor starts early to make sure he is on beat with the metronome, which the audio is later sync'd to.

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u/Glaselar Dec 12 '20

to coordinate timing the player actually starts earlier so that they are sync'd with the tempo of the song from the start

Musicians are perfectly capable of coming in on beat one when there's a metronome leading in, buddy. It's kind of band-musicianship lesson 1.